Edwin Scott was a celebrated author and presenter of stage plays and musicals in Sydney at the end of the nineteenth century and early twentieth century. Very few of his works for stage survive in either manuscript or published form. Those that were performed at various Sydney venues include Snow White; Or, Harlequin King Kok-a-Hoop and the Damsel Who Never Saw a Glass (1875), Hit Grease, Or, The Short Roan (1875), The Brothers, The Gay Masquerade, Off to the War, Ruby, Alpine Apples (all 1876) and Town and Country (1877). In 1899, he wrote and presented A Tale of The Transvaal, a dramatisation of H. Rider Haggard's novel Jess. He also compiled and indexed Opinions of the Attorney General (the Hon. W.B. Dalley) (1886).
Scott had also been an actor, but by 1870 he had stopped performing and concentrated on his writing and producing activities. Little else about him is available, except that he lived in a residence called 'Cottingham', his daughter's name was Ada Scott, and by 1909, his 'wealth of hair is becoming rapidly shot with grey, his face is marked with a number of wrinkles, but still his eyes glint keenly through his spectacles' (Theatre Magazine 1909, p.7). His daughter, Ada, was born at Leichhardt in 1886, and she celebrated her 19th birthday at the family residence on 15 March 1905. Scott's wife's name was Florence.
